QuakeNet – the 3rd largest public IRC network – just released the source code of their P10 network services Q (codenamed Q9) and S (plus many more) to the public. After many years of (closed) development, the release of QuakeNet’s “newserv” services has finally happened. You can read more at the README file and checkout or browse the mercurial

After installing xrdp on a fresh Debian Wheezy (7.1) installation, three keys on the keyboard (two arrow keys and the pipe |) were not working as expected via RDP. The arrow up key would minimize/maximze the active window in GNOME while the arrow down key had no or some non-obvious function. The pipe-character just acted as

PF is the default firewall / packet filter in the OpenBSD operating system. It is a very powerful, fast and reliable packet filter with a very nice human readable syntax. It is developed for OpenBSD but has made its way into various other *BSD operating systems as well as the (partly) BSD-based Mac OS X. As